On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jiří Techet techet@gmail.com wrote:
And just to keep the number of people who like/dislike this feature balanced, I must say I rather dislike it :-). I find it strange when I press the 'x' button on the tab and the tab reopens again. I had a look at other editors and it works this way:
- editors which have "x" button in the tab to close it do not
automatically open empty document (gedit, codeblocks)
- editors which don't use tabs or don't have close button in the tab
open empty document
In my opinion the only correct way to implement the automatic empty document opening is also to hide tab bar completely when only a single document is open (SciTE does it this way).
Personally I tend to prefer having the tabbar displayed at all times, in most tabbed apps.
Actually this would be also nice to save some extra space in the editor for the editing area if people are editing just a single document. Alternatively the "x" button should disappear if a single tab is displayed (firefox works this way).
..if a single _untitled_ tab is displayed. This is the way Opera handles it, and that the behaviour that I find ergonomic in this case; it allows to close the last titled document tab without the need to close the app. As soon as the document gets modified or gets a title, the 'x' should be restored. Midori, Xfce's web browser with 'always show tabbar' enabled, behaves similarly to Opera, although it keeps a non-functional 'x' even on the last empty tab; clicking on the last empty tab doesn't close it/re-open another empty, so I guess the unnecessary 'x' can be reported as a bug.
I'm not sure that this is all worth the effort, but I'd surely love if Geany handled last, empty tabs this way. Regards Liviu
That said, this is actually not a feature I care much about so can stay the way it is if the majority of people prefer the current behaviour.
Jiri
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